Parents sometimes tell their children amusing fabrications that they believe for far longer than expected, revealing the innocent nature of childhood. Examples include a child believing it was illegal to listen to Christmas music after New Year's, a dad claiming his family was too poor to afford a middle name, and a long-held belief that the shiny side of tinfoil must face inward for proper cooking. These playful misconceptions illustrate the humorous misunderstandings that can arise from parental teasing.
My dad played a long con on me. He made a big show of making sure the shiny side of tinfoil was always on the inside when wrapping something up to cook. Otherwise, 'it won't cook, the shiny side bounces off the heat.' He started this when I was very young. And continued it. FOR YEARS.
When I was 6, I was obsessed with Christmas music. I'd play Christmas albums on the record player for hours. I guess my mother took all she could take, and one day she told me it was illegal to listen to Christmas music after the New Year. I believed her for years.
My dad doesn't have a middle name. When I was little, I asked him why he didn't have one. He said his parents couldn't afford a middle name for him. He was just making some off-hand dad joke, but then I asked if he was serious, and he said, 'Yep, you pay by letter on the birth certificate, and we were a poor family, that's why my name is Pat, and I have no middle name.' Well, I had no reason not to believe him, so I believed that for years.
I was talking to a friend about names and I said, 'My first, middle, and last name is 23 letters altogether, so my parents must have been doing alright for money when I was born since they could afford all those letters on my birth certificate.' She looked at me like I was the biggest freak, and then the penny finally dropped for me that Dad was lying.
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